The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-26
BRIGHT BITS.

SCENE, grammar school Dialogue between
teacher and Johnny Teacher-What is the
future of The drinks? Johnny-He is drunk
HdYper'S Bdzdr.
Romans used to recline at their banquets and
the habit of lying at public dinners still prevails
-BoStOn Commercial Bulletin.
"HER cheeks are rudy as rose
Her eyes are pretty, but--her nose!"
ITO that you hardly should refer;
II was birthday present, sir"
Harper'S Bazar.
my son." said a father in Mich,
I'D rather not have you go fich."
But the lad went a-fishin'
Without his permission,
And thus he deiied his pas wich.
Chicago Tribune
ANGLING is a gentle pastme but when two
fishermen sit on the same log and one gets
nothing but nibbles and devils apron strings
while the other pulls in the fish as fast as he can
drop his line, it is impossible that there should
exist between these two anglers a feeling of en-
tire and unstrained cordially .-BostOn Tran
script.
''HULLo, Harry what's the news?''
''Oh, nothing particular. l was just reading
about the burying of $50 miners in British Co.
lumbia coal mine. What do you get?'
''They say our nine has got a whitewash!''
'Thunder you don't say sol But that is bad -
Boston Transcript.
OMAHA LADY--Dick, you haven't told me all
about that new baby.
Little Dick-I don't know much about it yet.
1t only got here this morning.
But you haven't even said whether it is a
sister or brother"
well, it looks like a little brother, but
mamma says he is goin' to be sister an sup
pose he will. '-Omdha World.
KENNEDY Ito Simpson, who lives in Brooklyn
and does business in New York WHATS that on
your finger?
Simpson with gratitude( Thanks awfully,
old fellow. I'd almost forgotten about it, That
is a string my wife tied there to remind me to
bring something homes ~
Kennedy---Bring horne what?
Supposedly George-er-Ill be switched if I
haven't forgotten what.--NetU York Graphic
LITTLE Dor Qaughing) Why, Dick, what's the
Little Dick-I's most dead 1 just took some
| awful stuff.
THAT what your mamma put on the table?'
Yes, she left it there in the cup an told me
not to touch it cause it was for pudding, an
when she went out took great big swallow,
an it's castor oil"
Yes, she said you ought to take some, an
told her how to fix it. "-On.dhd World.
THE celebrity with which a second marriage
follows divorce in many cases calls out con-
siderable comment. A Maine judge is credited
with the following story: He was holding court
at Machias when man brought him letter
from a woman who had a divorce case pending
asking when her case would come on. The
judge, thinking the man appeared anxious also,
said to him. jokingly, Il suppose you are going
to marry her, amt you; when she gets her di-
vorce?" Yes, replied the man, candidly that s
the calculation. "-LetctstOn (lfe.) Journal.
'GoT the cholera in town." asked a Nankin
farmer who was on the market yesterday
why, nor answered the person interro-
gated
Heard so out at my place yesterday. Heard
there were twenty-sx cases"
''Oh, that's all nonsense. Are your neighbors
much excited?''
Not bit, We began down there with the
measles and whooping cough last October and
we are now tapering off with catarrh in the
head and ringing in the ears. Excited Why,
come in to get case of the cholera for a
change Free Press.